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Enrollment
785
Elementary
DISTRICT 568 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMI-DADE·NCES 120039003048
JOHN I. SMITH K-8 CENTER
10415 NW 52ND ST, DORAL, FL 33178 · (305) 406-0220 · Miami-Dade County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL785 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 38% of Florida public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
177 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 34 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 55 | 7% |
| Grade 1 | 57 | 7% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 91 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 96 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 113 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 78 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 92 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 94 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (55) is 41% smaller than its 8th grade class (94).
Student demographics
19%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
60.4%
FL avg 56.7% . +4.9pp since 2023
Math
58.1%
FL avg 58.9% . -8.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 8 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 60.4% | 58.1% |
| 2023-24 | 55.4% | 66.4% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
59.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.9%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like JOHN I. SMITH K-8 CENTER
JOHN I. SMITH K-8 CENTER's state test result (59.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHN I. SMITH K-8 CENTER this school | 785 | 22.5% | 59.1% |
| EUGENIA B. THOMAS K-8 CENTER DORAL | 861 | 24.2% | 60.4% |
| CALUSA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MIAMI | 695 | 26.3% | 84.9% |
| DORAL INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF MATH AND SCIENCE DORAL | 570 | 23.9% | 63.4% |
| CORAL GABLES PREPARATORY ACADEMY CORAL GABLES | 812 | 27.2% | 73.4% |
| DORAL ACADEMY DORAL | 1,091 | 22.0% | 88.0% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where JOHN I. SMITH K-8 CENTER ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Miami-Dade County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 59.1% | #914 of 2,136 | #138 of 278 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.1% | #1,183 of 2,149 ▼ 492 | #192 of 279 ▼ 81 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.4% | #817 of 2,149 ▲ 100 | #124 of 279 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 785 | #502 of 2,267 | #64 of 290 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.0:1 | #1,122 of 2,077 | #122 of 264 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 19.0% | #1,963 of 2,108 | #150 of 267 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.5% | #1,960 of 2,188 | #254 of 283 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -57.2% | #14 of 1,374 | #3 of 185 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
785
-566 (-42%) vs 2020
-52% since 2000-01, when it was 1,632
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
was 13.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 785 | 49 | 16.0:1 | 23% (177) |
| 2023-24 | 866 | 55 | 15.8:1 | 29% (255) |
| 2022-23 | 1,001 | 59 | 17.0:1 | 31% (306) |
| 2020-21 | 1,351 | 98 | 13.8:1 | 55% (744) |
| 2017-18 | 1,836 | 110 | 16.7:1 | 45% (831) |
| 2015-16 | 1,616 | 92 | 17.6:1 | 48% (771) |
| 2010-11 | 1,116 | 72 | 15.5:1 | 37% (412) |
| 2000-01 | 1,632 | 80 | 20.4:1 | 28% (462) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JOHN I. SMITH K-8 CENTER.
About JOHN I. SMITH K-8 CENTER
JOHN I. SMITH K-8 CENTER is a mid-sized elementary school in Florida, located in DORAL. The school counted 785 students in 2024-25, covering pre-K through 8. That puts enrollment 30% above the 604-student average for elementary schools in Florida.
The district for JOHN I. SMITH K-8 CENTER is MIAMI-DADE, with 527 schools and 335,685 students.
At JOHN I. SMITH K-8 CENTER, 90% of students are Hispanic. Other students are 5% White, 3% Asian, and 2% Black. That is higher than the 69% Hispanic share among all Miami-Dade County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 19%.
JOHN I. SMITH K-8 CENTER has a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.0:1, with 49 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Florida, 17.5:1, is higher. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 23% at JOHN I. SMITH K-8 CENTER. It compares with 48% for public schools in Miami-Dade County.
Among Florida public elementary schools, JOHN I. SMITH K-8 CENTER outscored 38%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
On BeatsExpectations, JOHN I. SMITH K-8 CENTER is 10.8 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Florida schools.
In the wider Miami-Dade County area, the median household earns about $71,753 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. JOHN I. SMITH K-8 CENTER shares Miami-Dade County with 560 other public schools.
The closest school to JOHN I. SMITH K-8 CENTER is J.C. BERMUDEZ DORAL SENIOR HIGH, located about 0.8 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Among its closest neighbors with test data, JOHN I. SMITH K-8 CENTER is 6th of 7 on proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes JOHN I. SMITH K-8 CENTER as City: Small.
Federal data put enrollment at 1,351 in 2020-21 and 785 in 2024-25; the school may have served different grades in those years. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio increased to 16.0:1, from 13.8:1.
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Miami-Dade County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,738,356
Census ACS
Median income
$71,753
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
561
335,817 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MIAMI-DADE
- JOHN A. FERGUSON SENIOR HIGHHigh · 4,291 students
- CORAL REEF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,399 students
- SOUTH DADE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,382 students
- MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,100 students
- HIALEAH GARDENS SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,009 students
- BARBARA GOLEMAN SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,973 students
Other schools in DORAL
- DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,073 students
- DOWNTOWN DORAL CHARTER UPPER SCHOOLHigh · 1,500 students
- DORAL ACADEMY CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,351 students
- BRIDGEPREP ACADEMY OF MIAMI DADECombined · 1,316 students
- RONALD W. REAGAN/DORAL SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,288 students
- J.C. BERMUDEZ DORAL SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,133 students
Nearby schools
- J.C. BERMUDEZ DORAL SENIOR HIGH0.8 mi · 1,133
- DORAL INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF MATH AND SCIENCE1.0 mi · 570
- ACADEMIR CHARTER SCHOOL EAST MIDDLE1.2 mi · 92
- ACADEMIR CHARTER SCHOOL EAST AT DORAL1.2 mi · 463
- EUGENIA B. THOMAS K-8 CENTER1.3 mi · 861
- DORAL ACADEMY NORTH CHARTER ELEMENTARY1.5 mi · 200
Frequently asked questions
About JOHN I. SMITH K-8 CENTERHow large is JOHN I. SMITH K-8 CENTER?
JOHN I. SMITH K-8 CENTER enrolls approximately 785 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does JOHN I. SMITH K-8 CENTER serve?
JOHN I. SMITH K-8 CENTER serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at JOHN I. SMITH K-8 CENTER?
Approximately 16.0:1 students per teacher at JOHN I. SMITH K-8 CENTER.
What is the student diversity at JOHN I. SMITH K-8 CENTER?
Student demographics at JOHN I. SMITH K-8 CENTER are roughly 5% White, 90% Hispanic, 2% Black, 3% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Is JOHN I. SMITH K-8 CENTER public or private?
JOHN I. SMITH K-8 CENTER is a public K-12 school, overseen by MIAMI-DADE.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.